Crosby's Complete Pocket Gazetteer of England and Wales, Or Traveller's Companion
London: B. Crosby and Co., 1807. First Edition. 24mo, xx, 595, [9] pages, period quarter leather over marbled boards. Illustrated with two fold out maps.
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O Senado da Câmara e a Guerra Civil, 1820–1834.
Lisboa: Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, 1945. First Edition, Limited Edition of 200 copies, of which this is number 4. Signed by the author on the limitation page. Also, with a signed inscription by the author on the half title page. Quarto, 63 pages. Illustrated in black-and-white. Laid in is a......
A Question of Honour: The Life of Lieutenant General Valentine Baker Pasha
London: Leo Cooper, 1996. First Edition, Signed and Inscribed by the Author. Octavo, xii, 180 pages, publisher's original color pictorial wraps. Illustrated in black-and-white. A Question of Honour: The Life of Lieutenant General Valentine Baker Pasha is Anne Baker’s biography of Valentine Baker (1827–1887), the distinguished British cavalry officer whose.....
Der Krieg der Franzosen und ihrer Alliirten gegen Russland, 1812 und 1813
Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1813. First Edition, Three Volumes in One. 12mo. xiv, 271, [1]; xiv, 318, [4]; xii, 332, [4] pp. Bound in period quarter leather over marbled boards. Illustrated with two folding maps, one at the end of Vol. II and one at the end of Vol. III. Text.....
France Under Louis XIV (La Grand Siècle) Its Arts - Its Ideas
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. First American Edition. First English-language Edition. Folio, xvi, xxviii, 470 pages, publisher's original gilt-decorated red cloth covered boards. All edges gilt. Profusely illustrated throughout in black-and-white. France Under Louis XIV (Le Grand Siècle): Its Arts and Ideas is an illustrated study of 17th-century France.....
A Collection of Original Letters and Papers, Concerning the Affairs of England, From the Year 1641 to 1660. Found among the Duke of Ormonde’s Papers
London: James Bettenham, 1739. First Edition. Two octavo volumes, viii, 472; 464 pages, bound in period full leather with raised bands to the spines. A married set, with the volumes in differing bindings. First edition of Thomas Carte’s important documentary history of seventeenth-century England, A Collection of Original Letters and.....
A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken by the command of His Majesty, for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. To determine The Position and Extent of the West Side of North America; its Distance from Asia; and the Practicability of a Northern Passage to Europe. Performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Discovery. In the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. In Three Volumes [Volume 1 Only]
Dublin: Printed for H. Chamberlaine, W. Watson, Potts, Williams, Cross, et al. 1784. First Irish Edition. Octavo, xcviii, 421 pages, bound in period full leather. Illustrated with fold-out plates. Now in a protective archival box. The official account of Cook’s third and final voyage, undertaken in the *Resolution* and *Discovery*.....
Hero-Tales of Ireland
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1894. First American Edition. Octavo, lii, 558, [3] pages, publisher’s original decorative two-tone red and green cloth with gilt lettering and an attractive gilt floral clover ornament to the front board. Top edge gilt. Hero-Tales of Ireland is Jeremiah Curtin’s important collection of traditional Irish.....
Enchiridion: or A Hand for the One-Handed
New Haven, Connecticut: Elizabeth Licht, 1962. 1962 Facsimile Edition. Octavo, 60, [1] pp. Finely bound in full leather by Frederico d’Almeida of Lisbon, with gilt rules and lettering to the boards; binder’s label present. With a red silk ribbon marker. Facsimile of George Webb Derenzy’s 1822 *Enchiridion*, an uncommon early.....
An historical Account of the British Trade over the Caspian Sea : With the Authors journal of Travel from England through russia into Persia: And back through Russia, Germany and Holland. To Which are added: The revolutions of Persia during the present century, with the particular history of the great usurper Nadir Kouli. Vol. I Only
Dublin: William Smith and Richard James, 1754. First Irish Edition. Octavo, xxiii, [4], 588, [18] pages, bound in period full leather with gilt-lettered label to spine. Illustrated with seven folding plates, one double-page plate, and three single-page plates. Now housed in an archival box. First Irish edition of Jonas Hanway’s.....
Sposób zakopiański = Manière de Zakopane = Die Art Zakopane
Wien: Verlag Von Anton Schroll & Co., 1899. First Edition. Slim folio, v pages of text followed by 24 full-page plates printed on one side of the sheet only. Bound in the publisher’s original gilt-lettered green cloth-covered boards. Sposób zakopiański = Manière de Zakopane = Die Art Zakopane by Edgar.....
Letter Addressed to the Addressers, on the Late Proclamation.
London: H. D. Symonds and Thomas Clio Rickman, 1792. 12mo, [2], 8, 17-40, professional rebound in brown cloth over tan boards. Lacking the half-title and pp. 9–16 (four leaves of text); the publisher’s final advertisement leaf bound at front. A significant Paine pamphlet issued in the immediate aftermath of the.....
Thesaurus Anecdotorum Novissimus, seu Veterum Monumentorum, Praecipue Ecclesiasticorum, ex Germanicis potissimum Bibliothecis adornata Collectio recentissima.
Augustae Vindelicorum & Graecii [Augsburg & Graz]: Sumptibus Philippi, Martini, & Joannis Veith, Fratrum, 1721. First Edition; Tomes I–IV only of VI. Four folio volumes, uniformly bound in period full leather with raised bands to the spines. Illustrated with engraved frontispieces in the first three volumes and several folding plates.....
La Dauphine Marie-Antoinette
Paris: Boussod, Valadon et Cie, Éditeurs, 1896. First Edition, Édition originale, limited to 1,000 copies on papier vélin des Manufactures du Marais; this copy No. 359. Folio, 181 pages, finely bound by Durvand (signed in gilt on the front turn-in) in full crimson crushed morocco, boards elaborately gilt-tooled in rococo.....
Private Correspondence of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, Illustrative of the Court and Times of Queen Anne; with Her Sketches and Opinions of Her Contemporaries and the Select Correspondence of Her Husband, John, Duke of Marlborough
London: Henry Colburn, 1838. First Edition. Two octavos, lx, 416; xii, 490 pages, finely bound by Arthur E. Colley in quarter black leather over blue cloth covered boards. Spines with raised bands and ornate gilt decoration. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. With the bookplates of Frances E. Hunter, 1826 South.....
Discourses Concerning Government
London: J. Darby, 1704. Second Edition, carefully corrected. Folio, [8], 424 [i.e. 420], [48] pages, bound in period Cambridge-style full leather, with raised bands to the spine. With the neat bookplate of previous owner Ambrose Lisle March Phillipps de Lisle (1809–1878). A landmark work of English republicanism and early modern.....
Antiquitates Prioratus Majoris Malverne In Agro Wicciensi: Cum Chartis Originalibus Easdem Illustrantibus, ex Registris Sedis Episcopalis Wigorniensis Nunc Primum Editis.
London: J. Osborn & T. Longman, 1725. First Edition. Octavo, [8], ciii, [1], 204 pages, with three folding engraved plates, including a map, plan, and view of Malvern Priory; bound in period Cambridge-style, blind-stamped full leather; professionally rebacked with small raised bands and gilt lettering to the spine. Text in.....
The Memoirs of Philip de Comines: Containing the History of Lewis XI. and Charles VIII. of France, and of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, To Which Princes he was Secretary: as also the History of Edward IV. and Henry VII. of England. Including that of Europe for Almost Half the Fifteenth Century. With a Supplement, as also Several Original Treaties, Notes and Observations, and Lastly, the Secret History of Lewis XI. out of a book call'd The Scandalous Chronicle, and the Life of the Author Prefix'd to the Whole, with Notes Upon it, by the Famous Sleidan. Faithfully Translated from the late Edition of Monsieur Godefroy. To Which are Added Remarks on all the Occurrences Relating to England. Vol. II Only
London: J. Brotherton and F. Fayram; A. Bettesworth, and J. Pemberton, 1723. Second Edition. Octavo, viii, 386, 128 pages, bound in period full Cambridge style leather with blind-stamped decoration to both boards. Raised bands to spine.
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